every moment that passes has a message but we tend to distort the guide of the moment to the tune of our thinking that it becomes irrelevant..we misinterpret individuality then but we seldom realize..but the message remains the same..we need to go beyond..alas! we seldom go..

The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

REMEMBERING MANJUNATH SHANMUGAM

It is 8 years since November 19,
2005 when Manjunath Shanmugam was found murdered in Lakhimpur Kheri district of
Uttar Pradesh. He was brutally killed and dumped in his own car by a petrol
pump owner and his goons.

And the reason behind it was
Manjunath’s honesty.

Body of the young brilliant
engineering and management graduate of IIM Lucknow was found riddled with many
bullets as he was re-inspecting a re-opened petrol pump he had sealed for three
months for selling adulterated fuel.

He was just 27 then.

India
has become notorious for victimization of activists and social workers who get
into direct confrontation with the System to get its anomalies corrected and
Satyendra Dubey and S Manjunath are probably the most talked about initial cases
drawing wide attention on the need of serious discussion on whistleblower and
activist protection in India.
There is a long list from Satyendra Dubey to S Manjunath
to Satish Shetty to Shehla Masood to Narendra Dabholkar if we just talk of the
post-2000 period.

Yet, we do not have much to say
on the developments in this direction apart from a piece of proposed legislature
that, no one can say, when would see the final go and how effective would be.

Shanmugam Manjunath

(Wikipedia Photograph)

Sometime back, I had written an article while thinking on Manjunath. I found myself seeking answers to some questions that my thinking raised. It’s been some years since then, yet answers remain elusive.

Here it is..

NOVEMBER 19 AGAIN: DID IT ECHO
IN YOUR THOUGHTS?

I hope most of us are still aware
of Manjunath Shanmugam who sacrificed his life.

What for?

Many of us would dismiss that in
just one go -- for honesty -- and for human values, values going deeper
backstage with each passing moment, and this all is happening in the name of
pragmatism.

On 19th November 2005,
this IIML grad and sales manager of Indian Oil Corporation was found shot dead
in his car in Lakhimpur-Kheri. He was just 27. And for what -- he had raided
and sealed some petrol pumps for adulteration. S Manjunath,
the teacher of his IIML professors was no more between us.

But what was our responsibility?

Could we adopt even an iota of
values of pioneers like Manjunath, Satyendra Dubey, Binayak Sen or Himanshu
Gandhi?

A selfless struggle to bring the
process of change on the horizon!

Some media reports pegged Naxals’
annual extortion operation at around 1500 crore and see, a Madhu Koda could
easily outmaneuver them in just few years of political career.

Who’re mercenaries of debased
interests then?

Finding that is getting tougher
and tougher. Identities are coalescing and tentacles of vested interests are
infesting virtually every area of our social habitat now.

We need the change. We
desperately need to save our social habitat. We need functionality of values
back. Surely we need messengers of change. We always need to see that the
sacrifices like Manjunath and all others do not vanish in the pages of history.

We need to have discourses on
this sensitivity. We need to see what has been the individual sensitivity? What
has been the sensitivity of people as a whole?

Have we been able to question
ourselves? I think we must question ourselves, our orientations.

Followers

Banaras Calling

http://www.banarascalling.com/

About Me

thinking, reading, n writing to fill my spaces-all this with visiting unseen places-a lot of doing n just my soul to company me-isn't it life at its best, if i can be at it-realizing every moment of life, i just need to have this in my life..

Pages

Intellectual Property Right

Unless otherwise mentioned, all content, every word and visual, is created by Santosh Chaubey who holds all intellectual property rights of this site. The views and ideas expressed and represented here solely belong to Santosh Chaubey, creator of this site. Any copying or republishing can only be done after written permission from the owner of intellectual property rights.